Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from South Africa and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing UT to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
The Monks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Brand Nubian,
Mission of Burma,
Aural Exciters,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Japan,
Parry Music,
Joey Negro,
Theoretical Girls,
Faust,
The Dead C,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Brothers Johnson,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Symarip,
Little Man,
Dark Day,
Popol Vuh,
Big Daddy Kane,
10cc,
Pere Ubu,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gang of Four,
Suburban Knight,
Reuben Wilson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
kango's stein massive,
The Count Five,
Thompson Twins,
Amon Düül,
Deepchord,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Althea and Donna,
Minor Threat,
The Busters,
Dual Sessions,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tomorrow,
Black Sheep,
David McCallum,
The Mojo Men,
Sandy B,
Scientists,
Yaz,
Model 500,
Dave Gahan,
Pierre Henry,
Gerry Rafferty,
Moss Icon,
Mr. Review,
Unrelated Segments,
Newcleus,
Scrapy,
DJ Style,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Funkadelic,
La Düsseldorf,
Peter & Gordon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.